I Love Splatter!

Apr 05

Really, really impressed with the Evil Dead reboot! Fantastically done, with tones of splatteriffic goodness. The practical F/X are amazing. Raimi and Campbell should be proud of producing this.  Read my full review here. 

Really, really impressed with the Evil Dead reboot! Fantastically done, with tones of splatteriffic goodness. The practical F/X are amazing. Raimi and Campbell should be proud of producing this. 

Read my full review here. 

Apr 03

“This is not “The Making of The Shining.” This is not a biography of Stanley Kubrick. This is: After the film has left the filmmaker’s hands, how does the audience grapple with it and make sense of it?” ~ Director Rodney Ascher from an interview with Vulture My review of Room 237 - a documentary that I found interesting and irritating and frustrating all at the same time. 

“This is not “The Making of The Shining.” This is not a biography of Stanley Kubrick. This is: After the film has left the filmmaker’s hands, how does the audience grapple with it and make sense of it?” ~ Director Rodney Ascher from an interview with Vulture

My review of Room 237 - a documentary that I found interesting and irritating and frustrating all at the same time. 

Oct 29

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Oct 27

#15 of 31 Horror Films in 31 Days: Wes Craven’s My Soul to Take.  And thus concludes my Wes Craven retrospective this year! There are a lot more “downs” than “ups” in Craven’s catalog, but I still have to love the guy for inventing Freddy—and I still think the ups are SO stand-out, that he deserves a place of honor in my list of favorite horror film Directors.

#15 of 31 Horror Films in 31 Days: Wes Craven’s My Soul to Take. 

And thus concludes my Wes Craven retrospective this year! There are a lot more “downs” than “ups” in Craven’s catalog, but I still have to love the guy for inventing Freddy—and I still think the ups are SO stand-out, that he deserves a place of honor in my list of favorite horror film Directors.

Oct 23

#14 of 31 Horror Films in 31 Days: Wes Craven’s Cursed.  So not worth your time. Or anyone’s, really. 

#14 of 31 Horror Films in 31 Days: Wes Craven’s Cursed. 

So not worth your time. Or anyone’s, really. 

Oct 22

#10, 11, 12 and 13 of 31 Horror Films in 31 Days: Wes Craven’s Scream Quadrilogy Scream is one of my favorite horror films EVER, and the sequels - well, I love ‘em and hate ‘em; but there’s enough blood and scares that I mostly love ‘em. 

#10, 11, 12 and 13 of 31 Horror Films in 31 Days: Wes Craven’s Scream Quadrilogy

Scream is one of my favorite horror films EVER, and the sequels - well, I love ‘em and hate ‘em; but there’s enough blood and scares that I mostly love ‘em.